Law Practice
Jun. 3, 2014
A secret purchase in Paris
It was 1960 when I wandered into a bookstore on the Rive Gauche to purchase a copy of "Tropic of Cancer."
Arthur Gilbert
Justice (ret.)
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
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Dateline: Paris 1960. Your correspondent, moi (this is Paris, France, not Paris, Lamar County, Texas), wanders into a bookstore on the Rive Gauche. He purchases a copy of Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer," a book outlawed in the U.S. The people who run HBO were not yet born. Puerile youngster correspondent wraps the book in plain brown paper (not a bag) and packs it in the bottom of his suitcase unde...
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